Steve Earle- Someday
A troubadour for the dispossessed, Steve Earle wears the world's weary business like a coat, his songs cloaked in the work and troubles of the common man.
Tonight on the music club we head all the way back to 1985, the early days of Earle's music travels, a song about life in a dead end town, on a dead end job just dreaming of a better day to come.
It's a simple riff of country rock, but you can almost sense the desperation of the filling station employee looking for a way out of a losing situation, anxious to find out what's over that rainbow.
An infectious chorus hammers home the dream of better days, a plaintive promise that, we're gonna get out here, someday.
The song comes from Earle's breakout debut album Guitar Town, which launched him onto the music scene, spawning a couple of hits and foreshadowing a great run for the talented but occassionally troubled artist.
On Guitar Town, Earle does a marvelous job of taking the listener into the dusty back roads for rural America, where dreams get quashed rather quickly while locals scramble as best they can to make a better life for themselves, you want to fill up at the station near the interstate, a full tank of gas, a road on the way out of town and a better life all beckon.
Artist-Steve Earle
Recording-Guitar Town
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